David Hoffman | 1960s Rock & Roll Music Saved Graham Nash's Life @DavidHoffmanFilmmaker | Uploaded August 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
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In 1989, my team and I got the chance to interview 180 Americans for my television series on the 1960s, Making Sense Of The Sixties. Graham Nash of Crosby Stills Nash & Young was one of most interesting interview subjects. Without any editing. I decided after his beautiful and moving testimonies to his buddy David Crosby, that sharing this interview would mean something too many CSNY fans and others interested in the 1960s and 1970s and his feelings about those times.
Graham Nash is best known for his contributions as a member of the Hollies and Crosby, Stills & Nash (& Young). He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Crosby, Stills & Nash in 1997 and as a member of the Hollies in 2010.
In the early 1960s, Nash co-founded the Hollies, one of the UK's most successful pop groups. He was featured vocally on "Just One Look" (1964) and sang his first lead vocal on the original Hollies song "To You My Love" on the band's second album. Nash encouraged the Hollies to write more of their own songs such as "Stop Stop Stop".
Nash also composed songs by himself, for example 'Fifi the Flea' (1966), 'Clown' (1966), 'Stop Right There', 'Everything is Sunshine' (1967).
Nash initially met David Crosby and Stephen Stills in 1966 during a Hollies US tour. On a subsequent visit to the US in 1968, he was re-introduced to Crosby by Cass Elliott in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles. Nash left the Hollies to form a new group with Crosby and Stills. A trio at first, Crosby, Stills & Nash later became a quartet in 1969 with Neil Young: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
Nash went on to worldwide success, writing many of CSN's most-commercial hit singles such as "Our House" (about the house in Laurel Canyon shared with his then-lover Joni Mitchell); "Teach Your Children" and "Marrakesh Express," "Just a Song Before I Go"; and "Wasted on the Way". Nash was described as the glue that kept their often fragile CSNY group together.
Nash became politically active after moving to California, as reflected in his anti-Vietnam War songs "Military Madness" and "Chicago / We Can Change the World" (about the trial of the Chicago Eight). His song "Immigration Man", Crosby & Nash's biggest hit as a duo, arose from a tiff he had with a US Customs official while trying to enter the country.
In addition to his political songs Nash has written many songs on other themes he cares about such as of nature and ecology—beginning with the Hollies' "Signs That Will Never Change" — later CSNY's "Clear Blue Skies", plus anti-nuclear-waste-dumping ("Barrel of Pain"), anti-war ("Soldiers of Peace") and social issues ("Prison Song"). Nash appeared on the season 7 finale of American Idol singing "Teach Your Children" with Brooke White.
In 1972, during CSNY's first hiatus, Nash teamed with Crosby, forming a successful duo. They worked in this configuration on and off until David Crosby’s death.
Nash began his interest in photography as a child and began to collect photographs in the early 1970s. Having acquired more than a thousand prints by 1976, Nash hired Graham Howe as his photography curator. A touring exhibition of selections from the Graham Nash Collection toured to more than a dozen museums worldwide. Nash decided to sell his 2,000 print collection through Sotheby's auction house in 1990 where it set an auction record for the highest grossing sale of a single private collection of photography.
In the late 1980s Nash began to experiment with digital images of his photography on Macintosh computers. Nash ran into the problem common with all personal computers running graphics software during that period: he could create sophisticated detailed images on the computer, but there was no output device (computer printer) capable of reproducing what he saw on the computer screen. Years later Nash purchased an IRIS Graphics 3047 inkjet printer for $126,000 and set it up in a carriage house in Manhattan Beach, California. His team printed a show (1990) of Nash's work. The show entitled Sunlight on Silver was a series of 35 celebrity portraits by Nash which were 3 feet by 4 feet in an edition of 50 prints per image, a total of 1,750 images.
Nash was married to his first wife, Rose Eccles from 1964 until 1966. Nash married his second wife, Susan Sennett from 1978 until their divorce in 2016. In April 2019, he married artist Amy Grantham. He moved to New York City where he has lived since. He has three children.
Nash released an autobiography (2013) called Wild Tales: A Rock & Roll Life where he mentioned the impact of Joni Mitchell, with whom he had a relationship between 1968 and 1970. He also had a brief relationship with American musician Rita Coolidge.
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Thank you
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To see full interview - youtube.com/watch?v=-F6QBKwPZzY&feature=youtu.be
In 1989, my team and I got the chance to interview 180 Americans for my television series on the 1960s, Making Sense Of The Sixties. Graham Nash of Crosby Stills Nash & Young was one of most interesting interview subjects. Without any editing. I decided after his beautiful and moving testimonies to his buddy David Crosby, that sharing this interview would mean something too many CSNY fans and others interested in the 1960s and 1970s and his feelings about those times.
Graham Nash is best known for his contributions as a member of the Hollies and Crosby, Stills & Nash (& Young). He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Crosby, Stills & Nash in 1997 and as a member of the Hollies in 2010.
In the early 1960s, Nash co-founded the Hollies, one of the UK's most successful pop groups. He was featured vocally on "Just One Look" (1964) and sang his first lead vocal on the original Hollies song "To You My Love" on the band's second album. Nash encouraged the Hollies to write more of their own songs such as "Stop Stop Stop".
Nash also composed songs by himself, for example 'Fifi the Flea' (1966), 'Clown' (1966), 'Stop Right There', 'Everything is Sunshine' (1967).
Nash initially met David Crosby and Stephen Stills in 1966 during a Hollies US tour. On a subsequent visit to the US in 1968, he was re-introduced to Crosby by Cass Elliott in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles. Nash left the Hollies to form a new group with Crosby and Stills. A trio at first, Crosby, Stills & Nash later became a quartet in 1969 with Neil Young: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
Nash went on to worldwide success, writing many of CSN's most-commercial hit singles such as "Our House" (about the house in Laurel Canyon shared with his then-lover Joni Mitchell); "Teach Your Children" and "Marrakesh Express," "Just a Song Before I Go"; and "Wasted on the Way". Nash was described as the glue that kept their often fragile CSNY group together.
Nash became politically active after moving to California, as reflected in his anti-Vietnam War songs "Military Madness" and "Chicago / We Can Change the World" (about the trial of the Chicago Eight). His song "Immigration Man", Crosby & Nash's biggest hit as a duo, arose from a tiff he had with a US Customs official while trying to enter the country.
In addition to his political songs Nash has written many songs on other themes he cares about such as of nature and ecology—beginning with the Hollies' "Signs That Will Never Change" — later CSNY's "Clear Blue Skies", plus anti-nuclear-waste-dumping ("Barrel of Pain"), anti-war ("Soldiers of Peace") and social issues ("Prison Song"). Nash appeared on the season 7 finale of American Idol singing "Teach Your Children" with Brooke White.
In 1972, during CSNY's first hiatus, Nash teamed with Crosby, forming a successful duo. They worked in this configuration on and off until David Crosby’s death.
Nash began his interest in photography as a child and began to collect photographs in the early 1970s. Having acquired more than a thousand prints by 1976, Nash hired Graham Howe as his photography curator. A touring exhibition of selections from the Graham Nash Collection toured to more than a dozen museums worldwide. Nash decided to sell his 2,000 print collection through Sotheby's auction house in 1990 where it set an auction record for the highest grossing sale of a single private collection of photography.
In the late 1980s Nash began to experiment with digital images of his photography on Macintosh computers. Nash ran into the problem common with all personal computers running graphics software during that period: he could create sophisticated detailed images on the computer, but there was no output device (computer printer) capable of reproducing what he saw on the computer screen. Years later Nash purchased an IRIS Graphics 3047 inkjet printer for $126,000 and set it up in a carriage house in Manhattan Beach, California. His team printed a show (1990) of Nash's work. The show entitled Sunlight on Silver was a series of 35 celebrity portraits by Nash which were 3 feet by 4 feet in an edition of 50 prints per image, a total of 1,750 images.
Nash was married to his first wife, Rose Eccles from 1964 until 1966. Nash married his second wife, Susan Sennett from 1978 until their divorce in 2016. In April 2019, he married artist Amy Grantham. He moved to New York City where he has lived since. He has three children.
Nash released an autobiography (2013) called Wild Tales: A Rock & Roll Life where he mentioned the impact of Joni Mitchell, with whom he had a relationship between 1968 and 1970. He also had a brief relationship with American musician Rita Coolidge.
If you find this unedited interview of interest, please consider supporting my efforts by clicking the Super Thanks button below the video screen.
Thank you
David Hoffman filmmaker
